Liberty Counsel’s lawsuit from 2021 was granted final approval by Federal Judge John F. Kness. The lawsuit, Jane Doe 1, et al. v. Northshore University Healthsystem, involved over 500 healthcare workers who were unlawfully discriminated against for not receiving the Covid vaccine, their religious exemptions denied. Liberty Counsel said Covid vaccines “are produced by, derived from, manufactured with, tested on, developed with, or otherwise connected to or ‘associated’ with aborted fetal cell lines.” They explained their case by saying, “NorthShore previously granted exemptions for some employees but then denied them in mid-September. Those denials were either without explanation or because the requests failed to meet some so-called “evidence-based criteria” that NorthShore never provided the employees in advance.”
From The Gateway Pundit:
Today, Liberty Counsel reports: ... Judge Kness granted verbal final approval today and he will enter the final judgment within the next week. Liberty Counsel settled this historic, first-of-its-kind class action settlement against a private employer who unlawfully denied hundreds of religious exemption requests to COVID-19 shots. As a result, NorthShore will pay $10,337,500 to compensate these health care employees who were victims of religious discrimination, and who were punished for their religious beliefs against taking an injection associated with aborted fetal cells. Now that the final approval is granted by the court, the settlement checks will be sent out within 60 days. It is estimated that employees who were terminated or resigned because of their religious refusal of a COVID shot will receive approximately $24,000 each, and employees who were forced to accept a COVID shot against their religious beliefs to keep their jobs will receive approximately $3,700 each. In addition, employees who were terminated because of their religious refusal of the COVID shots will be eligible for rehire if they apply within 90 days of final settlement approval by the court, and they will retain their previous seniority level. In fact, many previously terminated employees already have been rehired, and others will continue to be reinstated at NorthShore. As a result of this settlement agreement, NorthShore has also changed its unlawful “no religious accommodations” policy to make it consistent with the law, and to provide religious accommodations in every position across its numerous facilities. No position in any NorthShore facility is considered off limits to unvaccinated employees with approved religious exemptions.
